Starting from iOS 5, every music player can set current playing music information such as title, artist, album title, and artwork on [MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter].n
You need to setup playback rate to 1.0f even if documentation says it's 1.0 by default.
NSDictionary *mediaInfo = @{
MPMediaItemPropertyTitle: audio.title,
MPMediaItemPropertyArtist: audio.artist,
MPMediaItemPropertyPlaybackDuration: audio.duration,
MPNowPlayingInfoPropertyPlaybackRate: @(1.0)
};
[[MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter] setNowPlayingInfo:mediaInfo];